Just started a new career, and I'm about to dive into the sorting of my riders.. who's to be trained and who's not. How would you go about doing this?
Sorting by potential? By general importance in future races? Train only younger riders? etc.
I got 3 legendary trainers to do the task(to few? to many?). Do you seperate the high-potential riders from others and give them individual trainers or?
I usually try to choose all my riders, keeping only in mind, that all trainers would have "excellent" efficiency (max 8 riders trained). So You should be fine to train 22-24 riders with your coaches. If it turns out that one of the trainers would not be "excellent" due to too big number of trainees, I would rule out those older guys, sho don't have any stars, or the smallest number of them in their potential (You can find this in cyclist' data - just shuffle through different screens in the game).
When choosing type of training and a trainer I would stick to the type of training suitable for the type of cyclist: climber training for climbers, puncheur for puncheurs etc. Yet, if You see that the cyclist has only one star of potential left in his primary statistics, and more stars in others, I would switch to stage races training, as it is the most thorough. I usually do that with climbers or puncheurs, sometimes time trial specialists, who can't develop their MO or TT that much in their original type of training.
When You hire trainers and choose which riders should they train, try to estimate which riders (especially young) have biggest potential and try to hire the best coach available for their tyope of training. F.ex. if You have very promising climber and time trial - give them coaches who have best possiible values in time trial and climber. Usually I make sure that each of my trainers is very good in two fields and those fields don't repeat.
F.ex. 1 trainer for TT and Stages
2 for Climber/Puncheur
3 for Sprint/Fighter
Of course it depends on the trainers You have, but with three trainers You should be able to cover all types of training with high enough values. Just remember to concentrate on giving your best trainers to the most promising riders and make sure your trainers work only with 2 or 3 specializations of training they're best at. If You have too much climbers and can't give them all to the best climbing trainer, give the older ones to someone worse, cause they won't get that much out of training anyway.
